DISTILLING KNOWLEDGE by Bruce T. Moran ( 9780674022492 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

DISTILLING KNOWLEDGE
ALCHEMY, CHEMISTRY, AND THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION

By:

Bruce T. Moran

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0674022491

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9780674022492

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Publisher:

HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 September, 2006

Series:

New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine

Pages:

224

Description:

Looks past contemporary assumptions and prejudices to determine what alchemists were actually doing in the context of early modern science. This book examines the ways alchemy and chemistry were studied and practiced between 1400 and 1700. It shows how these approaches influenced their respective practitioners' ideas about nature and the world.

Synopsis:

Alchemy can't be science - common sense tells us as much. But perhaps common sense is not the best measure of what science is, or was. In this book, Bruce Moran looks past contemporary assumptions and prejudices to determine what alchemists were actually doing in the context of early modern science. Examining the ways alchemy and chemistry were studied and practiced between 1400 and 1700, he shows how these approaches influenced their respective practitioners' ideas about nature and shaped their inquiries into the workings of the natural world. His work sets up a dialogue between what historians have usually presented as separate spheres; here we see how alchemists and early chemists exchanged ideas and methods and in fact shared a territory between their two disciplines.

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Harvard University Press

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